Hyper Polarization Quotes

There are neighborhoods in France that are not French… Why would immigrants want to change France is they left their country to live in France? .. You have two kinds of people living in France: The French and the others…. To offer something to the world, France has to remain France.|

Now, a river of blood will divide France from its enemies.

I’m angry with what’s happening to our country and angry with myself that I can’t do more.

The polarization of American politics is the proximate cause of the ongoing budget deficit…. Lately, the ideological center in Congress has thinned, and the distance between the parties has widened. Compromise has come to be seen as surrender—and the U. S. Government has all but come to a halt.

History shows that populism polarizes society, weakens economies, and undermined representative democracy.

It is not Islam the religion that is generating discord. Rather the problem is a deep disagreement among Muslims over the degree to which Islam ought to shape the laws and institutions of society…. the ongoing competition over what constitutes good public order has polarized them, creating vicious enmities that resist compromise.

Shall I tell you what this collision means? They who think it is accidental, unnecessary, the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means the United States must and will, sooner or later, become entirely a slave-holding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.

Donald Trump:President of the Divided States of America

I will write plain & slow because I know you have no time to listen to trifles. This is no trifle. When one nation is at war with another, all the People of the one are the enemies of the other.... Most unfortunately the war in which we are now Engaged, has been complicated with the belief on the one hand that all on the other were not Enemies. It would have been better if at the outset this mistake had not been made, and it is wrong longer to be misled by it.

The 113th Congress has spent much of the year doing nothing but collecting campaign contributions …

I don’t care for ideological people. It’s like those people just want to stop thinking.

Political devicivness is a vice, and like many other vices, it is very attractive.

The Republican Health Care Plan has three problems. It isn’t healthy, it is not caring and there is no plan.

Glorious News. Lincoln and Seward Assassinated! Andy Johnson Inaugurated President.

… what a fearful waste it is that we have to go killing each other before even a difference of opinion can be settled amongst people of the same nation.

This is the core claim of populism. Only some of the people are really the people.

When I was a young boy I used to raise chickens and I was studying to be a preacher. I used to practice preaching to the chickens. Some of those chickens listened to me better than some of my colleagues now in the Congress.

In this political climate, there is no possibility of passing anything comprehensive.

The American sense of decorum is falling apart.

We have seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty. At times, it can seem like the forces pulling us apart are stronger than the forces binding us together. Argument turns too easily into animosity. Disagreement escalates into dehumanization. Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples while judging ourselves by our best intentions.